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Chalk Hill Estate Chardonnay 2010
Sonoma County, California, United StatesChalk Hill is naturally fermented with native yeast and goes through 100% malolactic fermentation and weekly battonage for eleven months in French oak where some 40 per cent is new. A cool, wet spring and rain at flowering reduced the crop load that turned out to be useful in what was overall a cool year. The style is very California, but in a delicious manner with creamy rich honeyed, tropical, pear fruit flavours with a thread of minerality and coolness on the back end. If this wine ever gets leaned (beginning with less malo) there is no telling where it could go. Best with crab or buttery fish dishes.Tasted: 29 January 2014Tasted by: Anthony GismondiPrices:| BC | $60.00 | 750ml | specialty listing - Select Wine Merchnants |
| AB | $77.00 | 750ml | private wine shops |
Grape: Chardonnay
